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Saturday, January 21, 2012

kathy bates the office

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Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in nine Emmy Award nominations.

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Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates
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Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters of Bertye Kathleen (née Talbert 1907-1997), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates (1900-1989), a mechanical engineer. Her paternal grandfather was lawyer and author Finis L. Bates. Her great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland to New Orleans and served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor. She graduated from White Station High School, and later attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in theatre, was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and graduated in 1969. She moved to New York City in 1970 to pursue an acting career.